Cents

Why was I seekin they validation?

when life is attraction, ain’t no chasin

Procrastination, hesitation

to watch the next man’s moves

for motivation, debatin

will never get you what’s meant for you

or change them bank statements

I ain’t got the patience

To keep falling on my face

I’m hurtin, waitin, anxious

Trippin bout why they don’t love me

I rather tie my laces

And keep on runnin in my purpose

took me a while to find it, worth it

Every brick I lay, I earned it

how to listen, yeah I learned it

That’s what life’s about

I hear them ancestors talkin to me

I need they faces on my currency

they bought it for me

The chance to be me, to be great

To create my fate

relate, to the real ones

my place, somewhere high

when I get to zonin

Wake up

the same hunger from night to mornin

Fly in the sky cant be scared of fallin

pickin up wit fate callin callin

i be pickin up wit money callin callin

I be pickin up my daughter callin callin

Why seekin they validation?

It do nothin for me

nah it don’t help my story

I rather pour a 40

To the memory of any doubt

to the memory of fallin out

when I was just a shorty

Wit frenemies who envy me

they try to treat you poorly

Talkin bout the shit that’s on you

never what’s in you, affordin

Me to cut niggas off

since 6th grade

no switch blade

my disdain

I sustain

Low tolerance

mo knowledge and

You know relationships is currency

they lost all they shit

Hopped off the 115 to my dream

followed it

Moms want me to get a doctorate

Prefer Andre Young and Chris Wallace and

All the pictures on my wall

Source, XXL

to San Vicente, La Brea

cookin wit Khalil

Tryna make a livin off these culinary skills

Serving rhymes in them fields

what it take to make a mill

and reinvest, residuals sweeter than Sugar Hill

That we dumped in the pitcher

hopin kool-aid don’t spill

When streetlights was the spotlight

before the limelight

I always knew who I would grow to be

and I guess did it right

I made a dollar outta 15 cents

The other 85 is the reason I’m alive

I make ambition make cents

I make Hussle make cents

I made a dollar outta 25 cents

The other 3 quarters I was drowning up in water

Made swimming make cents

I make Hussle make cents